Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Thu Apr 24 00:14:20 UTC 2008


Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> said:
>> su - 
>>  on a fedora system does the same thing  it loads the target users profile 
>> rather than using the source users
> 
> Except "su -" has other side-effects (such as changing the working
> directory; highly annoying when you need to chown a file or some such).

In cases like this, sudo is your friend. Plus it'll leave an audit trail.

/Thomas




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